The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq.
Some of 190,000. That's a lot of weapons. In fact, that's 30% of the weapons we supposedly distributed to the Iraqi forces in the past three years. Nice work. And we're being told it's the Iranians who are supplying the enemy.
It seems that the lion's share of the missing weaponry happened when General Petraeus was in charge of security training. You know General Petraeus - he's the guy who's supposed to report in September on how the surge is going and offer recommendations (and already says he doesn't think that he'll have anything "definitive" to report, so I wonder what kind of recommendations he might have to give: I recommend you give me more time?). He's the guy Iraqi President Maliki wants Bush to replace. He's also the guy who said that he thinks the key to success is "disrupting the attacks." Kind of stacked the odds against that outcome for himself by losing track of those weapons, didn't he?
I'm sure he'll think of some way to spin it all, though. After all, he's the guy who thinks we've been there so long that the Iraqis think we're liberators again.
"There is a period of omnipotence. There was a period in the beginning when there was a ‘golden hour’. Inevitably, it does not matter how much you were viewed as a liberator, over time you will be seen as an occupier. The interesting dynamic here is that we have been here long enough to become liberators again for certain sectors of the population, those that are affected by extremism."
Loo-oooney Tunes.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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